crow

crow

(Jiayou materia medica)

[synonyms] giant beaked black (Bird's classic), big beaked black (Bird's classic), black crow (Diannan materia medica), old crow (pox and rash theory).

[source] it is the whole body or meat of Corvidae.

[animal form] crow

It is one of the most common species of Corvidae. Body length is about 50 cm. The mouth is strong and straight, black and smooth. The iris is dark brown. The whole body is pure black; the L-body, except for the head, back neck and neck side, is stained with green and blue light; the throat is stained with deep blue light; the lower covert of the wing and tail has blue or green light on the tip, but no light on the rest of the lower body; the base of the trunk on the bottom of the wing feather is gray white. Strong feet, black toes and claws.

It is common in fields, houses and mountain trees. The food is corn, peanuts, beans, melons and fruits, insects, carrion, etc. It is distributed all over the country.

The head (crow's head), wing feather (crow's wing feather) and gall (crow's gall) of this animal are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

Sour and smooth.

① Jiadiao materia medica: "it's flat and nontoxic. "

② Daily use materia medica: "it tastes salty and flat. "

③ "Compendium": "sour and astringent, flat, non-toxic. "

[function indications] dispel wind and settle epilepsy, stop tuberculosis and stop bleeding. It can cure head wind, vertigo, infantile wind epilepsy, deficiency tuberculosis, cough, hematemesis, bone steaming and hot tide.

① Jiahu materia medica: "it is used to treat thin, cough, bone steaming, and infantile epilepsy. "

② Ben Cao Tu Jing: "cure acute wind. "

③ "Compendium": "meat, treatment of dark wind epilepsy and five labors and seven injuries, hematemesis, cough, insecticidal. "

[selection] 1. To cure the old man's head wind, dizziness and black eyes: Crow meat, Gastrodia elata, stewed soup. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Cure children Crazy: Crow meat, pig bile, uncaria, scorpion, Coptis. Take the same decoction. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

③ To cure the disease of deficiency and fatigue: hang a crow, remove the hair intestines, add ginseng slices, five pieces of prickly ash each, sew, cook cooked food in water, and put it in soup; roast crow bone, ginseng and pepper, and take jujube meatballs. (convenience diet)

④ Cure five labors and seven injuries, hematemesis cough: a crow, a Trichosanthes pulp, a little alum. Put it into the belly of the crow, sew it up and cook it, then make four clothes. (Shouyu shenfang)

⑤ Cure milk: 3 crows. Stir fry and serve as you like. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

⑥ Cure baldness sore: Crow 3, black alum appropriate amount. First, the crow is fed with black alum, packed in a jar, sealed with yellow mud, dried up by Chaff fire, ground into fine powder, mixed with sesame oil, and applied to the affected area. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Wu Ya